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Make sure that it really is an Urgent Care - there are starting to pop-up businesses which are (or at least promote themselves as) Emergency Room alternatives.
by chiph 9y ago
Make sure that it really is an Urgent Care - there are starting to pop-up businesses which are (or at least promote themselves as) Emergency Room alternatives. They charge like an ER too, so you could end up with a large bill.
- exhilaration 9y agoGood point, but I think that depends on whether your state allows them. I've seen standalone emergency rooms in Texas but not in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. One of my relatives in Houston is an ER doc and works at one of these standalone ER's, when I asked him why these exist (in contrast to urgent facilities) he told me it was purely because they can charge significantly higher ER rates.